Under the Regional Administration Act of 1962, as amended in 2002, Section 7(1) gives DCs and RCs authority to detain a person for 48 hours without presenting them before a court.

Unguja. The World Bank (WB) has called on the Zanzibar’s Ministry of Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children to ...

A woman from Mwitikila village in Bahi District, Ms Rehema Ndoje, has spent 27 years in prison under a death sentence in a ...

The race to host what could become East Africa’s largest oil refinery is inatensifying, with analysts warning that Tanzania ...

Simba SC Ghanaian striker Jonathan Sowah is yet to report for training despite the club’s decision to reinstate him under the ...

Members and supporters of Tanzanian football giants Young Africans (Yanga) have demonstrated remarkable unity and financial ...

Tanzanian professional boxer Ibrahim Mafia has officially been stripped of the World Boxing Council (WBC) Africa bantamweight ...

The government has said it is finalising reforms to the Universal Health Insurance system, with the second phase of citizen ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan has led Tanzanians in congratulating the Tanzania women’s under-20 national football team, the ...

Noise pollution caused by loudspeakers used in markets has continued to draw concern from the public, with health experts and ...

Innovative young entrepreneurs have started turning discarded human hair collected from salons into organic fertiliser as ...

Three people - a Dutch couple and a German national - have died since the start of the outbreak ⁠on the ship, which is usually spread by wild rodents but can also be transmitted ...